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Francis Spufford
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Francis Spufford
I May Be Some Time: Ice and...
ISBN: 0312220812, 978-0312220815 Год издания: 1999 Издательство: St. Martin's Griffin Язык: Английский Аннотация
The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of polar exploration, I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar…
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Фрэнсис Спаффорд
Impenitente
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Francis Spufford
The Child That Books Built:...
ISBN: 0312421842, 978-0312421847 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: Picador Язык: Английский Аннотация
Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such beloved classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, and The Chronicles of Narnia. He recreates the excitement of discovery, writing joyfully of the moment when fuzzy marks on a page become words. Weaving together child development, personal reflection, and social observation, Spufford shows the force of fiction in shaping a child: how stories allow for escape from pain and mastery of the world, how they shift our boundaries of the sayable, how they stretch the chambers of our imagination. -
Фрэнсис Спаффорд
Cahokia Jazz
ISBN: 9781668025451 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Scribner Язык: Английский Аннотация
From “one of the most original minds in contemporary literature” (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived.